Yes, I have that on mmy 2do list for quite some time now. Could you
send me your patches to the code?
Fritz
>>>>> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:58:40 -0500,
>>>>> Roger Peng (RP) wrote:
> For what it's worth, I would find such a adaptation useful.
> -roger
> Thibaut Jombart wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> despite I already posted a mail on this topic on R help, I guess this place may be more appropriate.
>> I'll make it shorter this time. Sorry for posting twice.
>>
>> I found that using pixmap pictures in a Sweave document was sometimes almost impossible, due to the huge size of the pdf pictures produced.
>>
>> The first solution I found was to save pictures in png, when too heavy in pdf. Here is an example:
>>
>> ### in a .rnw document ###
>>
>> % here is an invisible chunck to create a picture
>> <<fig =FALSE,echo=FALSE>>=
>> png(filename='figs/myPic.png')
>> @
>>
>> % next, R code to generate picture
>> <<fig=FALSE,echo=TRUE>>=
>> ...[code to produce the figure]
>> @
>>
>> % then, close the device. Hidden, again
>> <<fig =FALSE,echo=FALSE>>=
>> dev.off()
>> @
>>
>> % and then, include it as a picture
>> \includegraphics{figs/myPic.png}
>>
>> ### end of the example ###
>>
>> I
>> This is quite long, and I would have prefered to need simply:
>>
>> <<fig=TRUE,pdf=FALSE,png=TRUE>>
>> ...[code to produce the figure]
>> @
>>
>> So I tried to adapte the Sweave driver 'RweaveLatex' in order to do so. It worked.
>>
>> The not-so-new driver is only a slight modification of RweaveLatex, and can
>> generate ps, pdf or png figures; it was tested on Ubuntu64, Debian,
>> several Windows systems and macOS X partforms with no detected problem.
>>
>> Does someone find this useful, and/or were there better solutions I missed?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Thibaut Jombart .
>>
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